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Tracking progress in machine learning has become increasingly difficult with the recent explosion in the number of papers. In this paper, we present AxCell, an automatic machine learning pipeline for extracting results from papers. AxCell…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Marcin Kardas , Piotr Czapla , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Ruder , Sebastian Riedel , Ross Taylor , Robert Stojnic

A key bottleneck in building automatic extraction models for visually rich documents like invoices is the cost of acquiring the several thousand high-quality labeled documents that are needed to train a model with acceptable accuracy. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yichao Zhou , James B. Wendt , Navneet Potti , Jing Xie , Sandeep Tata

We propose a novel high-performance and interpretable canonical deep tabular data learning architecture, TabNet. TabNet uses sequential attention to choose which features to reason from at each decision step, enabling interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Sercan O. Arik , Tomas Pfister

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on large volumes of data excel at various natural language tasks, but they cannot handle tasks requiring knowledge that has not been trained on previously. One solution is to use a retriever that fetches…

This paper presents TableQuery, a novel tool for querying tabular data using deep learning models pre-trained to answer questions on free text. Existing deep learning methods for question answering on tabular data have various limitations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Abhijith Neil Abraham , Fariz Rahman , Damanpreet Kaur

Handling heterogeneous data in tabular datasets poses a significant challenge for deep learning models. While attention-based architectures and self-supervised learning have achieved notable success, their application to tabular data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anay Majee , Maria Xenochristou , Wei-Peng Chen

Chemical structure extraction from documents remains a hard problem due to both false positive identification of structures during segmentation and errors in the predicted structures. Current approaches rely on handcrafted rules and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Joshua Staker , Kyle Marshall , Robert Abel , Carolyn McQuaw

Document-to-table (Doc2Table) extraction derives structured tables from unstructured documents under a target schema, enabling reliable and verifiable SQL-based data analytics. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Yuxiang Guo , Zhuoran Du , Nan Tang , Kezheng Tang , Congcong Ge , Yunjun Gao

Efficient data annotation remains a critical challenge in machine learning, particularly for object detection tasks requiring extensive labeled data. Active learning (AL) has emerged as a promising solution to minimize annotation costs by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Somraj Gautam , Nachiketa Purohit , Gaurav Harit

Data preparation, also called data wrangling, is considered one of the most expensive and time-consuming steps when performing analytics or building machine learning models. Preparing data typically involves collecting and merging data from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michael Glass , Xueqing Wu , Ankita Rajaram Naik , Gaetano Rossiello , Alfio Gliozzo

Tables organize valuable content in a concise and compact representation. This content is extremely valuable for systems such as search engines, Knowledge Graph's, etc, since they enhance their predictive capabilities. Unfortunately, tables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ahmed Nassar , Nikolaos Livathinos , Maksym Lysak , Peter Staar

Labeling data (e.g., labeling the people, objects, actions and scene in images) comprehensively and efficiently is a widely needed but challenging task. Numerous models were proposed to label various data and many approaches were designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Mu Yuan , Lan Zhang , Xiang-Yang Li , Hui Xiong

Superior to state-of-the-art approaches which compete in table recognition with 67 annotated government reports in PDF format released by {\it ICDAR 2013 Table Competition}, this paper contributes a novel paradigm leveraging large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Miao Fan , Doo Soon Kim

Since a vast number of tables can be easily collected from web pages, spreadsheets, PDFs, and various other document types, a flurry of table pre-training frameworks have been proposed following the success of text and images, and they have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Haoyu Dong , Zhoujun Cheng , Xinyi He , Mengyu Zhou , Anda Zhou , Fan Zhou , Ao Liu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Scientific documents contain tables that list important information in a concise fashion. Structure and content extraction from tables embedded within PDF research documents is a very challenging task due to the existence of visual features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Pratik Kayal , Mrinal Anand , Harsh Desai , Mayank Singh

We contribute a deep-learning-based method that assists in designing analytical dashboards for analyzing a data table. Given a data table, data workers usually need to experience a tedious and time-consuming process to select meaningful…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Aoyu Wu , Yun Wang , Mengyu Zhou , Xinyi He , Haidong Zhang , Huamin Qu , Dongmei Zhang

Table recognition is using the computer to automatically understand the table, to detect the position of the table from the document or picture, and to correctly extract and identify the internal structure and content of the table. After…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shi Jiyuan , Shi chunqi

Designers need to consider not only perceptual effectiveness but also visual styles when creating an infographic. This process can be difficult and time consuming for professional designers, not to mention non-expert users, leading to the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chen Zhu-Tian , Yun Wang , Qianwen Wang , Yong Wang , Huamin Qu

Document extraction is an important step before retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge bases, and downstream generative AI can work. It turns unstructured documents like PDFs and scans into structured text and layout-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aman Ulla

Tabular data is a pervasive modality spanning a wide range of domains, and the inherent diversity poses a considerable challenge for deep learning. Recent advancements using transformer-based in-context learning have shown promise on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Valentin Thomas , Junwei Ma , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Keyvan Golestan , Guangwei Yu , Maksims Volkovs , Anthony Caterini